[pkg-go] dh-make-golang, gbp:error: Couldn't commit to 'pristine-tar' with upstream

[Tong Sun]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:56 PM Tong Sun <pkgoyq.xpt at neverbox.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What could go wrong with this simple command?
>
> dh-make-golang github.com/suntong/ffcvt
>
> These are the errors I'm getting for that:
>
> $ dh-make-golang github.com/suntong/ffcvt
> 2018/06/22 23:45:53 Downloading "github.com/suntong/ffcvt/..."
> 2018/06/22 23:45:53 Determining upstream version number
> 2018/06/22 23:45:53 Package version is "1.1.0+git20170914.a6d80b5"
> 2018/06/22 23:45:53 Determining dependencies
> 2018/06/22 23:45:53 Assuming you are packaging a program (because
> "github.com/suntong/ffcvt" defines a main package), use -type to
> override
> gbp:error: Couldn't commit to 'pristine-tar' with upstream
> '27899a6f2bdbe757b832450b123699d935e2f5c8': execution failed: [Errno
> 2] No such file or directory
> gbp:error: Import of
> /path/to/ffcvt/ffcvt_1.1.0+git20170914.a6d80b5.orig.tar.xz failed:
> Couldn't commit to 'pristine-tar' with upstream
> '27899a6f2bdbe757b832450b123699d935e2f5c8': execution failed: [Errno
> 2] No such file or directory
> gbp:error: Error detected, Will roll back changes.
> gbp:error: Rolled back changes after import error.
> 2018/06/22 23:45:54 Could not create git repository: exit status 1

Found the problem myself.

"My dh-make-golang is the latest from git"

I.e., I did the install using

go get -v -u github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang

this time, not apt install, thus missing the pristine-tar dependency.